Kirstie Allsopp got first Twitter backlash over iPad smashing

Kirstie Allsopp quit social media after being "abused" when she revealed she\'d broken her children\'s iPads.

The 47-year-old presenter - who has sons Bay, 12, and Oscar, 10, with partner Ben Andersen - caused an outcry last September when she revealed she\'d smashed the devices to stop her boys from playing video games and she admitted she experienced a backlash she\'d never had before, so deleted her Twitter account because she didn\'t want her kids to see the negativity.

She told The Sun newspaper\'s Bizarre TV column: "I didn\'t want them to see that and that\'s why I shut down the account. I usually get zero abuse on Twitter -- there are controversies and people give their opinion -- but it was the first time I\'d been abused.

"A lot of the gamers went nuts.

"I think they felt that someone was trying to cut their willy off or something."

Kirstie - who is now back on Twitter - can next be seen on TV with her new show \'Celebrity Craft Masters\' and she hopes to attract and inspire an audience who wouldn\'t usually be interested in making their own items.

She said: "I want the \'Love Island\' ­viewers to be interested in craft. If they watch the show once and never again but go and do a craft, then that\'s the nut I\'ve cracked."

The outspoken star previously explained she had damaged the iPads after her sons broke her rules on screen time.

She admitted: "This is the first time I\'ve said this publicly.

"In June I smashed my kids\' iPads, not in a violent way. I actually banged them on the table leg.

"There is a game called \'Fortnite\' and another \'PUBG\' and I decided... we had made all sorts of rules and all sorts of times when we said you can\'t play them and all those rules got broken and in the end I said: \'Right that is it, I have to physically [break them]."